Abstract: A method for braking a vehicle through a redundant braking system includes (i) in response to a fault signal received from the main braking system of the vehicle, obtaining the motor speed, (ii) calculating the wheel speed of the vehicle based on the motor speed, and (iii) generating a braking command based on the wheel speed to control the braking actuators of the vehicle to brake the wheels.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool including a drive unit and including an output shaft, at which a tool holder is formed, which encompasses an internal polygonal holder for connection to a first insertion tool and an external polygonal holder for connection to a second insertion tool, a locking unit for locking the first insertion tool being assigned to the tool holder. It is provided that the locking unit includes at least one locking element, the locking element encompassing at least one contact surface, against which the second insertion tool rests.

Abstract: A power tool kit includes a storage case configured to store a hand-held power tool and ancillary devices. The storage case includes a first case half pivotably joined to a second case half. In addition, the storage case includes a worktable configured to be stowed inside the storage case. The worktable is formed of a first foldable panel that is rotatably joined to the first case half and a second foldable panel that is rotatably joined to the second case half. When the storage case is in an open case configuration, the first and second panels lie flat and cooperate to form a worktable that includes a power tool guide device.

Abstract: A machine learning (ML) method for predicting an electronic structure of an atomic system. The method includes receiving an atomic identifier and an atomic position for atoms in the atomic system; receiving a basis set including rules for forming atomic orbitals of the atomic system; forming the atomic orbitals of the atomic system; and predicting an electronic structure of the atomic system based on the atom identifier, the atom position for the atoms in the atomic system, and the atomic orbitals of the atomic system. The ML method is capable of extremely accurate and fast molecular property prediction. The ML can directly purpose basis dependent information to predict molecular electronic structure. The ML method, which may be referred to as an orbital mixer model, uses multi-layer perception (MLP) mixer layers within a simple, intuitive, and scalable architecture to achieve competitive Hamiltonian and molecular orbital energy and coefficient prediction accuracies.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for training a neural network, which, in particular, is configured to classify physical measuring variables. The neural network is trained with the aid of a training data set. Pairs including an input signal and an associated desired output signal are drawn from the training data set for training. An adaptation of parameters of the neural network occurs as a function of an output signal of the neural network, when the input signal is supplied, and as a function of the desired output signal. The drawing of pairs always takes place from the entire training data set.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for training an image segmentation system. The method includes: obtaining a training image and a training label map, wherein the training label map indicates pixels of the training image as belonging to an anomaly class; providing the training image as input to the image segmentation system, wherein the image segmentation system determines values characterizing logits for different classes for pixels of the training image; determining a loss value based on a loss function, wherein the loss function comprises a first term that characterizes a logarithm of a sigmoid of logits determined for pixels in the training image, wherein the logarithm of the sigmoid is determined for pixels, which are labeled as belonging to the anomaly class in the training label map; training the image segmentation system (60) by minimizing the loss value.

Abstract: A method includes encoding a set of hierarchical text prompts to define a set of text embeddings, where the set of hierarchical text prompt defines a primary informative prompt and a secondary informative prompt associated with the primary informative prompt. The method further includes encoding an input image to define a plurality of feature representations, changing a value of one or more identified feature representations among the plurality of feature representations to mask the one or more identified feature representation and define a general feature representation of the input image based on a class-specific threshold indicative of boundary between a class-specific feature and a general feature. The method further includes classifying the input image based on an out-of-distribution (OOD) score determined using a similarity analysis of the general feature representation and the set of text embeddings.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a power transistor. The method includes: applying a first epitaxial layer including a first doping concentration to a front side of a semiconductor substrate, producing an expansion layer, which is situated inside the first epitaxial layer, producing various implanted areas starting from the front side of the semiconductor substrate, producing a trench structure starting from the front side of the semiconductor substrate, producing first isolation areas in the surroundings of the trench structure, producing transistor heads, and applying metal layers.

Abstract: A temperature-control arrangement for a microelectric system, and a microelectric system. The temperature-control arrangement includes a closed channel system, which includes at least one channel for guiding an electrically and thermally conductive medium and is thermally coupled to at least one object to be temperature-controlled of the microelectric system, and a magnetohydrodynamic pump with a plurality of magnetohydrodynamic modules, which each include an electrode device with two electrodes and a magnet device, which generates a magnetic field, wherein at least two magnetohydrodynamic modules are designed as pump modules and are electrically connected in series.

Abstract: A method for operating a drive unit of a vehicle operable by muscle power and/or motor power and comprising an electric motor and a control unit includes, in response to a system start of the drive unit, actuating the electric motor at a start current such that the electric motor rotates in a reverse direction of rotation.

Abstract: A radar system including a transmitting/receiving unit, which is designed to generate and output radar signals by means of a fast chirp modulation method, and to receive chirps of the reflected radar signals. The radar system includes a memory unit and an evaluation unit. The evaluation unit is designed such that, based on the received chirps of the reflected radar signals, it creates a multi-dimensional radar data cube with a plurality of bins, by means of a Fourier transform, wherein each bin is assigned a complex data value. The evaluation unit is also designed such that, for each complex data value, a real component of the complex data value and an imaginary component of the complex data value is each converted into a logarithmic fixed point representation and stored in the memory unit.

Abstract: Systems and methods directed to electronic communications system expander device. The device includes a differential receiver, an electronic processor, and a broken wire detection circuit including a load resistor selectively connectable to an input of the detection circuit, the circuit being communicatively coupled at the input to a differential communications bus and communicatively coupled at an output to the processor. The processor is configured to transmit a message over the bus to an electronic communications device, detect, at the differential receiver, a message over the bus from the communications device, and connect, in response to detecting the response message, the load resistor to the input of the detection circuit. The processor is further configured to disconnect, during reception of the message from the communications device, the load resistor and determine, based on a signal from the circuit, whether a broken wire condition exists within the bus.

Abstract: A system for managing electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in high-demand conditions. An example system includes a cloud-based policy administration component configured to identify the impacted area, estimate the charging demand in that area during the traffic event, and deploy mitigating policies to electric vehicles and charging stations in the area. Example responsive actions corresponding to the mitigating policies deployed to the charging stations include preparing the charging and cooling equipment to meet the estimated charging demand, charging stationary storage batteries for mitigating estimated power-demand spikes corresponding to the estimated charging demand, and charging an inventory of swappable battery packs to meet estimated battery-swap demand corresponding to the estimated charging demand. Example responsive actions corresponding to the mitigating policies deployed to individual electric vehicles enable optimal matching of the vehicles to the charging stations.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining an alignment of a lens system. The method include: aligning the lens system according to a provided first alignment; ascertaining a first refracted optical signal, the first refracted optical signal being ascertained by a refraction of a first emitted optical signal at the lens system (aligned according to the first alignment; ascertaining a first attribute value, the first attribute value characterizing an attribute of the first refracted optical signal; training a first machine learning system as a function of the first alignment and the ascertained first attribute value, the machine learning system being designed to ascertain an output for an alignment that characterizes the attribute of the alignment; ascertaining the alignment of the lens system based on an output of the first machine learning system.

Abstract: Knowledge-based audio-text modeling via automatic multimodal graph construction is performed. An audio dataset is received, the audio dataset including clips of audio data, wherein each of the clips of the audio data is paired with corresponding metadata descriptive of the audio contents of the respective clip of the audio data. Graph nodes of interest are identified from a sematic network, the graph nodes being descriptive of semantics of the knowledge domain of the contents of the audio dataset. A large language model (LLM) is utilized for categorizing the metadata into the graph nodes and for inferring supplemental data for the graph nodes for which there is no metadata, producing an extracted knowledge graph. The extracted knowledge graph is validated utilizing the LLM to perform relation verification of edges between the graph nodes of the extracted knowledge graph, thereby mitigating hallucination effects in the categorizing and inferring of the supplemental data.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular a screwdriver, includes: an elongate housing in which a drive unit having at least one drive motor for driving a tool receptacle is arranged, the tool receptacle being designed to accommodate an insertion tool; and an activation unit for activating the drive motor, the drive motor being activated by the insertion tool which is located in the tool receptacle acting upon, in particular along a longitudinal axis of the elongate housing, a workpiece to be worked on. The activation unit has a first activation element for activating the drive motor at a first speed and a second activation element for activating the drive motor at a second speed, the first speed being less than the second speed.

Abstract: A drilling tool, in particular a rock drill, extends along a longitudinal axis and includes a drill head, an insertion end, a main body, a cover element, a transport region which is located between the drill head and the insertion end, and at least one transport channel which extends along the transport region. The transport channel is located radially between the cover element and the main body. The cover element includes at least one interior region, which is located inside the main body, and at least one exterior region which is located outside the main body.

Abstract: A dimensional fluid mapping system. An internal fluid device having one or more internal cavities configured to contain a fluid is disclosed. The one or more internal cavities have one or more internal features. The internal fluid device has a first side and a second side opposing the first side. A heating device is configured to apply heat to the first side when driven with a multifrequency excitation signal including first and second frequencies. A thermal measuring device is configured to record thermal signals emitted from the second side. A controller is configured to receive the thermal signals from the thermal measuring device and to generate a dimensional thermal map of one or more internal features of one or more internal cavities and/or an internal fluid distribution of the fluid contained in the one or more internal cavities in response to the thermal signals.

Abstract: A method for recognizing oscillations and/or deflection movements of an infrastructure component. The method includes: detecting static and/or geometric features of a first point cloud during initial installation; optionally segmenting the static features of the first point cloud, and generating a first segmented point cloud; further detecting static and/or geometric features of a second point cloud at a later point in time; segmenting the static features of the second point cloud, and generating a second segmented point cloud; superimposing the first point cloud or the first segmented point cloud with the second segmented point cloud; when the first point cloud or the first segmented point cloud is superimposed with the second segmented point cloud, transformation parameters obtained correspond to values of a local oscillation of the infrastructure component and of the at least one LIDAR sensor accommodated therein; and ascertaining an absolute oscillation of the infrastructure component.

Abstract: A subscriber station and method for deterministic communication in a serial bus system. The subscriber station has a communication control device for controlling a communication of the subscriber station by generating messages based on a frame and by transmitting the messages to a bus of the bus system and by evaluating at least one signal received from a bus of the bus system based on the frame, with which frame the bit time in a first communication phase can differ from a bit time in a second communication phase, and a pause module for evaluating at least one item of status information output by the communication control device, wherein the pause module is designed to generate and output a transmission delay signal based on a result of its evaluation, to delay or not to delay the provision of a transmission message to the communication control device.